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Tornado Watch 133
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 7, 2025, 10:20 AM EDT for 12 counties in Florida; 52 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2025, 10:20 AM EDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 69 counties
Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:21 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Decatur, Grady | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 10:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 46 min |
| Apr 7, 10:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Liberty, Wakulla | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 11:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 11:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Mitchell, Thomas | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 11:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin | 66 min |
| Apr 7, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 11:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Tift, Worth | 14 min |
| Apr 7, 11:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 14 min |
| Apr 7, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Wakulla | 60 min |
| Apr 7, 12:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 43 min |
| Apr 7, 12:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Leon | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Grady, Thomas | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Hamilton | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware | 17 min |
| Apr 7, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Ware | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Pierce, Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 11 min |
| Apr 7, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley, Glynn, Wayne | 18 min |
| Apr 7, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 43 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 11:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 83 min |
| Apr 7, 2:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hamilton, Lafayette, Suwannee, Taylor | 96 min |
| Apr 7, 4:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ben Hill, Berrien, Burke, Coffee, Emanuel, Irwin and 9 more | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 1:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence and 9 more | 117 min |
| Apr 7, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 7 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion | 55 min |
| Apr 7, 7:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarendon, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 87 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.